Campbell McGrath
Campbell McGrath (born 1962) is a notable American poet. He is the author of nine full-length collections of poetry, including his most recent, Seven Notebooks (Ecco Press, 2008), Shannon: A Poem of the Lewis and Clark Expedition (Ecco Press, 2009), and In the Kingdom of the Sea Monkeys (Ecco Press, 2012).
Life
McGrath was born in Chicago, Illinois, and grew up in Washington, D.C., where he attended Sidwell Friends School; among his classmates was the poet Elizabeth Alexander. He received his B.A. from the University of Chicago in 1984 and his MFA from Columbia University's creative writing program in 1988, where he was classmates with Rick Moody. He currently lives in Miami Beach, Florida, and teaches creative writing at Florida International University, where his students have included Richard Blanco, Susan Briante, Jay Snodgrass and Emma Trelles. He is married to Elizabeth Lichtenstein, whom he met while he was an undergraduate; they have two sons.[1]
Music
In the early 1980s, while a student at the University of Chicago, he was a member of the punk band Men From The Manly Planet.[2]
Awards
McGrath has been recognized by some of the most prestigious American poetry awards, including the Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award (for "The Bob Hope Poem" in Spring Comes to Chicago, his third book of poems), a Pushcart Prize, the Academy of American Poets Prize, a Ploughshares Cohen Award, a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Witter Bynner Fellowship from the Library of Congress, and a MacArthur Foundation "Genius Award." In 2011 he was named a Fellow of United States Artists.[3]
Works
While primarily known as a poet, McGrath has also written a play, "The Autobiography of Edvard Munch" (produced by Concrete Gothic Theater, Chicago, 1983); a libretto for Orlando Garcia's experimental video opera "Transcending Time" (premiered at the New Music Biennalle, Zagreb, Croatia, 2009); collaborated with the video artist John Stuart on the video/poetry piece "14 Views of Miami" (premiered at The Wolfsonian, Miami, 2008); and translated the Aristophanes play The Wasps for the Penn Greek Drama Series.
Bibliography
- Dust (chapbook, Ohio Review Press, 1988)
- Capitalism (Wesleyan University Press, 1990)
- American Noise (Ecco Press, 1993)
- Spring Comes to Chicago (Ecco Press, 1996)
- Road Atlas (Ecco Press, 1999)
- Mangrovia (chapbook, Short Line Editions, 2001)
- Florida Poems (Ecco Press, 2002)
- Pax Atomica (Ecco Press, 2004)
- Heart of Anthracite: New & Collected Prose Poems (Stride Press, UK)
- Seven Notebooks (Ecco Press, 2008)
- Shannon: A Poem of the Lewis and Clark Expedition (Ecco Press, 2009)
- The Custodian & Other Poems (chapbook, Floating Wolf Quarterly, 2011)
- In the Kingdom of the Sea Monkeys (Ecco Press, 2012)
- XX: Poems For The Twentieth Century (Harper Collins, 2016)
References
- ↑ "Campbell McGrath". Ploughshares. Retrieved October 9, 2012.
- ↑ "Florida Poets Project". Florida Poets Project. Retrieved 12/02/2012. Check date values in:
|access-date=(help) - ↑ "Campbell McGrath". USA Fellows. United States Artists. Retrieved October 9, 2012.
External links
- "Historian, comedian, storyteller:a conversation with poet Campbell McGrath," Lyn Millner, Florida International University Magazine, Fall 1999 issue.
- Interview in MIPOesias
- Bio and notes on articles in Ploughshares
- Excerpt from Pax Atomica at Harper Collins
- Poetry Daily interview
- University of Chicago Magazine profile
- Interview in BOMB